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I have a 10" brown bullhead and he is the opposite of what I expected from reading others experiences. It doesn't eat any of the gold fish breeders I have with him. I moved the ones from my pond in for the winter.


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It is not too surprising. Bullheads are scavengers, not hunters. Not that they could not gulp down a live prey.
 
thebiggerthebetter said:
Sweet set-up and I have been enjoying your reports on your 60 bullheads. Aren't some of the fish in the pond koi? That must be a huge bio-load. Describe your bio-filter, please, if you will, and if it is coping fine.
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Thanks. Some will disagree and not like my filter design but it works perfectly for me and keeps the water clear and the bottom clean. This pool is only temporary anyway until my fish room is done.

I have the pool filter running and this is the filter I made:

I have a 3000gph pump drawing from the bottom center going in to 50 gallon tote #1 where it's filtered with microfiber towels and sponges leaves there:

Goes to 50 gallon tote #2 where it goes through bioballs on one side and then through thick cotton mesh type of material

Leaves there and goes to 50 gallon tote #3, with some pond plants and lava rock

Finally through 50 gallon tote #4 with pillows (yes pillows - see below) and falls back down in to the pond which is what you hear in the video.

Pillows: I was in Ikea one day and saw these and the first thing I thought was how they would be perfect for a filter. The pillows are 1.99 each. These pillows are PERFECT for filtration. The pillow is made of a tightly woven mesh polypropylene (almost like an aquarium net) and filled with polyester fiber. The water flow through this is absolutely perfect. It catches anything totes 1-3 don't catch. I am actually going to go there today and buy maybe 20 or 30 more of them just to have for the future because of how good they have proven to be.

I have 2 pumps that are 600gph angled for bottom water movement and so that any waste is pushed right to the center and the 3000gph picks it right up.

ph, nitrates, ammonia, all stay good and I check daily. The fish are happy and healthy.
 
BigFinn said:
I have a 10" brown bullhead and he is the opposite of what I expected from reading others experiences. It doesn't eat any of the gold fish breeders I have with him. I moved the ones from my pond in for the winter.

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The goldfish in there were tiny 10 for 1.00 feeders about 45 days ago. I put them with the bullheads and they have grown like crazy somehow. The bullheads don't bother them at all. I don't know a lot about goldfish but these are getting big and some of them have some really nice colors, white and orange and speckled. I showed my wife because she didn't believe me when I told her and she couldn't believe it when she saw them either.
 
MDFishTanks said:



Thanks. Some will disagree and not like my filter design but it works perfectly for me and keeps the water clear and the bottom clean. This pool is only temporary anyway until my fish room is done.

I have the pool filter running and this is the filter I made:

I have a 3000gph pump drawing from the bottom center going in to 50 gallon tote #1 where it's filtered with microfiber towels and sponges leaves there:

Goes to 50 gallon tote #2 where it goes through bioballs on one side and then through thick cotton mesh type of material

Leaves there and goes to 50 gallon tote #3, with some pond plants and lava rock

Finally through 50 gallon tote #4 with pillows (yes pillows - see below) and falls back down in to the pond which is what you hear in the video.

Pillows: I was in Ikea one day and saw these and the first thing I thought was how they would be perfect for a filter. The pillows are 1.99 each. These pillows are PERFECT for filtration. The pillow is made of a tightly woven mesh polypropylene (almost like an aquarium net) and filled with polyester fiber. The water flow through this is absolutely perfect. It catches anything totes 1-3 don't catch. I am actually going to go there today and buy maybe 20 or 30 more of them just to have for the future because of how good they have proven to be.

I have 2 pumps that are 600gph angled for bottom water movement and so that any waste is pushed right to the center and the 3000gph picks it right up.

ph, nitrates, ammonia, all stay good and I check daily. The fish are happy and healthy.
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Sounds interesting to me. Do you have a thread on it? If not, would you consider snapping some photos of the filter, media and maybe the pool and starting a thread? Any further discussion of the filter would not belong here but I am eager to see the pics of them pillows etc. as well as other questions.
 
He ate the biggest one last night. I didn't think he could have eaten one that big. It was about 4" long and super fat. It was one of those round ones with a fancy double tail. How did you pellet train yours? All mine will eat is chopped fish fillets.


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BigFinn said:
He ate the biggest one last night. I didn't think he could have eaten one that big. It was about 4" long and super fat. It was one of those round ones with a fancy double tail. How did you pellet train yours? All mine will eat is chopped fish fillets.

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I didn't pellet train them. They just started eating them a few days after I caught them since I feed pellets to the tilapia, koi and goldfish. I give them raw shrimp and night crawlers once a week also.
 
http://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=52 : Ameiurus nebulosus (brown) is similar to Ameiurus melas (back) but has 5-8 large saw like teeth on rear of pectoral spine.

The colors are too variable to distinguish blacks, browns, and yellows. Perhaps when you have 60 of them side by side, all from the same body of water, you can spot the difference, MDFishTanks?
 
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